Opportunities and challenges for data physicalization

Yvonne Jansen; Pierre Dragicevic; Petra Isenberg; Jason Alexander; Abhijit Karnik; Johan Kildal; Sriram Subramanian; Kasper Hornbæk

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702180

Opportunities and challenges for data physicalization

Yvonne Jansen, Pierre Dragicevic, Petra Isenberg, Jason Alexander, Abhijit Karnik, Johan Kildal, Sriram Subramanian, Kasper Hornbæk

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Physical representations of data have existed for thousands of years. Yet it is now that advances in digital fabrication, actuated tangible interfaces, and shape-changing displays are spurring an emerging area of research that we call Data Physicalization. It aims to help people explore, understand, and communicate data using computer-supported physical data representations. We call these representations physicalizations, analogously to visualizations - Their purely visual counterpart. In this article, we go beyond the focused research questions addressed so far by delineating the research area, synthesizing its open challenges, and laying out a research agenda.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Number of pages	10
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	18 Apr 2015
Pages	3227-3236
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3145-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702180
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2015
Event	Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '15 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015 Conference number: 33

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Conference	Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Number	33
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/2015 → 23/04/2015

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Opportunities and challenges for data physicalization. / Jansen, Yvonne; Dragicevic, Pierre; Isenberg, Petra et al.

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 3227-3236.

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Jansen, Y, Dragicevic, P, Isenberg, P, Alexander, J, Karnik, A, Kildal, J, Subramanian, S & Hornbæk, K 2015, Opportunities and challenges for data physicalization. in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 3227-3236, Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 18/04/2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702180

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